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Chestnut and Chocolate Loaf

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Ingredients

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  • 250 grams dark chocolate, broken into pieces
  • 6 pieces eggs, separated
  • 100 grams Butter, soften
  • 50 grams raw sugar
  • 200 grams Chestnut meal
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
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Recipe's preparation

    Preparation

  1. Preheat oven at 180C. Grease and line a 6cm deep, 19cm x 10cm base loaf pan.

     

    To make the chestnut meal, place toasted chestnut kernels into mixing bowl and mill 1-2 mins/speed 9, weigh 200gm and put aside.

     

    Clean and dry mixing bowl.

    Place chocolate into mixing bowl and grate 10 sec/speed 8, Scrape down side of bowl.

    Melt chocolate 2 mins /50C/speed 3. Put aside and keep warm as chocolate will harden back when cool.

     

    Separate the 6 egg whites and yolks. 

     

    Clean and dry mixing bowl.

    Insert butterfly. Place egg whites and a salt into mixing bowl and whip 3-4mins/50C/speed 4 until stiff peaks form. Pour into another bowl and put aside.

     

    Clean and dry mixing bowl

    Place sugar into mixing bowl and mill 10sec/speed 9

    Add butter and melt 30sec/90C/speed 1, then mix 1 min/speed 3

    With blade rotating, add in egg yolk through hole in mixing bowl lid.

    Add in chestnut meal (leaving about a 30gms for topping) and melted chocolate and mix 15 secs/speed 3.

     

    Pour mixture into normal mixing bowl. Put a small amount of the whipped egg white to the chocolate mixture and mix until combined. Add the remaining whipped egg white chocolate mixture and fold through gently until just combined. ( Do not overmix or the cake won’t be light and fluffy).

     

    Transfer mixture to prepared loaf pan and place in the oven for 40 – 60 minutes (or until an inserted skewer comes out clean).

    Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Remove from loaf pan and serve topped with the remaining 30gms chestnut meal.

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Tip

If you are a `sweet' person, the amount of sugar can be increased another 10gm

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  • Can you please clarify egg yolk step? Do you add 1...

    Submitted by ChristinaMW on 11. April 2017 - 11:35.

    Can you please clarify egg yolk step? Do you add 1 egg yolk or all egg yolks? Thanks!

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